Cola Spiced Whiskey Cake with Coke Fluid Gel

By cirql8or

Top Chef: Just Desserts, Season 1, Episode 2

Ingredients

• Cola Spice:
• 20 ea Whole Allspice
• 1 ea Star Anise
• 12 ea Black Peppercorns
• 1 tsp. Cocoa Nibs
• 1/8 tsp. Sea Salt
• 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
• 1 ea Vanilla Bean
• ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 5 ea Whole Cloves
• Cola Spiced Whiskey Cake:
• 500 g Butter
• 460 g Sugar
• 400 g Eggs
• 335 g Cake Flour
• 5 g Salt
• 10 g Baking Powder
• 2 tbsp Cola Spice
• Whiskey Soaking Syrup:
• 10 oz Water
• 8 oz Sugar
• 6 oz George Dickel’s Tennessee Whiskey
• 2 oz Butter
• Coca Cola Fluid Gel:
• 24 oz Coca Cola
• ½ tsp Salt
• 2 oz Brown Sugar
• 2 g Citric Acid
• 8 g Agar Agar
• 2 g Xantham Gum
• Coke Sorbet:
• 1 lb Simple Syrup
• 1 can Coke
• 1 tbsp. Whiskey
• Dickel’s Tennessee Gelee:
• 10 oz Water
• 8 oz Sugar
• 6 oz Dickel’s Whiskey
• 16 g Silver sheet gelatin, bloomed

Details

Adapted from bravotv.com

Preparation

Step 1

Cola Spice:
1. Blend in spice grinder until smooth.
Cola Spiced Whiskey Cake:
1. Cream butter and sugar for 8 minutes and blend in eggs. Sift together dry ingredients and mix in.
2. Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes or until toothpick can be removed cleanly when inserted.
3. Soak cake with syrup upon removal from oven.
Coca Cola Fluid Gel:
1. Heat Coke with all ingredients to a simmer. Pour into a pan to cool. Blend set gel in a blender. Vacuum gel to remove air.
Coke Sorbet:
1. Mix together and freeze in an ice cream machine.
Dickel’s Tennessee Gelee:
1. Boil sugar and water and dissolve bloomed gelatin in.
2. Stir in whiskey and pour into a pan to cool and set. Once set cut into cubes.